It turns out the Higgs doesn’t have any hidden depths. There are no tantalising secrets to tease out. The boson has nothing to say about the universe that physics didn’t already know. Spending time together is turning out to be a chore for physics.

It's a wonder that it wasn't plastered all over the news and front page on the MSM websites like it was when it was "discovered"

Of course, "boring" is a relative term. The story of the hunt for the Higgs -- the 'exchange particle' that endows matter with mass -- reads like a Dan Brown novel, culminating in the construction of the biggest, boldest and most complex machine mankind has ever conceived: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). There's more twists, turns and subplots than you can shake a lepton at.

But the famous Higgs boson, that until recently has been purely a theoretical particle only appearing in equations, looks like it comes from the Standard Model of physics and not something more exotic.

The Standard Model is a set of equations and particles that underpin our known Universe. It's a recipe book of sorts and works like this: If you collide particle A with particle B you get particle C plus some energy -- we know what will come out of a particle interaction even before the interaction takes place. There's nothing unexpected in this recipe book; so it doesn't work like this: If you collide particle A with particle B you get particle Q and -- what the #$%@?! -- a small elephant playing with a black hole!

The latter scenario would violate our known laws of physics, suggesting something more exotic is going on. In that case, there would be some kind of new physics, something beyond the Standard Model at play -- perhaps an exotic result from the LHC would provide evidence of "supersymmetry." One interpretation of supersymmetry suggests there may be an entire family of Higgs bosons that cannot be explained by the Standard Model. However, supersymmetry has recently been dealt a "hospitalizing" blow.

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have detected one of the rarest particle decays seen in nature.

The finding deals a significant blow to the theory of physics known as supersymmetry.

Many researchers had hoped the LHC would have confirmed this by now.

Supersymmetry, or Susy, has gained popularity as a way to explain some of the inconsistencies in the traditional theory of subatomic physics known as the Standard Model.

The new observation, reported at the Hadron Collider Physics conference in Kyoto and outlined in an as-yet unpublished paper, is not consistent with many of the most likely models of Susy.

Prof Chris Parkes, who is the spokesperson for the UK participation in the LHCb experiment, told BBC News: "Supersymmetry may not be dead but these latest results have certainly put it into hospital."

Supersymmetry theorises the existence of more massive versions of particles that have already been detected.

If found, they might help explain the phenomenon known as dark matter. Galaxies appear to rotate faster at their edges than the matter we see can account for, and one set of candidates for this missing dark matter is supersymmetric particles.

Dark matter won't be proven, IMO, because it doesn't exist.

Then again, I'm no scientist. Just an ordinary, non-conformist seeker-weird-o.

It turns out the Higgs doesn’t have any hidden depths. There are no tantalising secrets to tease out. The boson has nothing to say about the universe that physics didn’t already know. Spending time together is turning out to be a chore for physics.

Quoting: SolitaryWildFlower

Maybe they can dress it up and role play, pretend it's a super-string in a French maid outfit...

just like dark energy and dark matter. total bs to fill holes in their bad math.

Dark matter anyway is on an effect of matter in our universe from annother dimension,or its matter from annother universe occupining the same spacetime,just that it osscilates at a different frequency then normal matter so appears not to be there but its gravitational force exerts itself into our universe/dimension.

just like dark energy and dark matter. total bs to fill holes in their bad math.

Dark matter anyway is on an effect of matter in our universe from annother dimension,or its matter from annother universe occupining the same spacetime,just that it osscilates at a different frequency then normal matter so appears not to be there but its gravitational force exerts itself into our universe/dimension.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25137504

Dark Matter is the paradigm of the sciences. A polite apology for the universe's exceeding expectations.

It's a wonder that it wasn't plastered all over the news and front page on the MSM websites like it was when it was "discovered"

Of course, "boring" is a relative term. The story of the hunt for the Higgs -- the 'exchange particle' that endows matter with mass -- reads like a Dan Brown novel, culminating in the construction of the biggest, boldest and most complex machine mankind has ever conceived: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). There's more twists, turns and subplots than you can shake a lepton at.

But the famous Higgs boson, that until recently has been purely a theoretical particle only appearing in equations, looks like it comes from the Standard Model of physics and not something more exotic.

The Standard Model is a set of equations and particles that underpin our known Universe. It's a recipe book of sorts and works like this: If you collide particle A with particle B you get particle C plus some energy -- we know what will come out of a particle interaction even before the interaction takes place. There's nothing unexpected in this recipe book; so it doesn't work like this: If you collide particle A with particle B you get particle Q and -- what the #$%@?! -- a small elephant playing with a black hole!

The latter scenario would violate our known laws of physics, suggesting something more exotic is going on. In that case, there would be some kind of new physics, something beyond the Standard Model at play -- perhaps an exotic result from the LHC would provide evidence of "supersymmetry." One interpretation of supersymmetry suggests there may be an entire family of Higgs bosons that cannot be explained by the Standard Model. However, supersymmetry has recently been dealt a "hospitalizing" blow.

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have detected one of the rarest particle decays seen in nature.

The finding deals a significant blow to the theory of physics known as supersymmetry.

Many researchers had hoped the LHC would have confirmed this by now.

Supersymmetry, or Susy, has gained popularity as a way to explain some of the inconsistencies in the traditional theory of subatomic physics known as the Standard Model.

The new observation, reported at the Hadron Collider Physics conference in Kyoto and outlined in an as-yet unpublished paper, is not consistent with many of the most likely models of Susy.

Prof Chris Parkes, who is the spokesperson for the UK participation in the LHCb experiment, told BBC News: "Supersymmetry may not be dead but these latest results have certainly put it into hospital."

Supersymmetry theorises the existence of more massive versions of particles that have already been detected.

If found, they might help explain the phenomenon known as dark matter. Galaxies appear to rotate faster at their edges than the matter we see can account for, and one set of candidates for this missing dark matter is supersymmetric particles.

Dark matter won't be proven, IMO, because it doesn't exist.

Then again, I'm no scientist. Just an ordinary, non-conformist seeker-weird-o.

Quoting: SolitaryWildFlower

A way of knowing based upon observation, experimentation and the mortar of theory indeed. Methinks thou thinkest TOO MUCH.

So Research is out doing his morning chores and he notices that the chickens all come out of the north door of the coop and only enter via the south door.

Research had never seen chickens do that before, so he made a mental note.

The next day it was the other way around they left by the south door and entered through the north

Now Research starts keeping track with a note book starting on the 22th of October

This is what it looks like

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October

22. Out North , In South23. Out south, in north24. Out N. In S25. Out S. In N.26 O.N. I.S.27 OS. IN. From this point forward , I'll use a standard abbreviation "S" for south , "N' for north , and the first letter will represent the" Out door" and the second the "in door" to save space

28 NS29 SN30 NS31 SNNovemberI'm writing this before stepping outside to see if it is indeed and "NS" day as I predict

01 SNHuh?02 NS03 SN04 NS05 SNIt appears that the chickens aren't merely alternating their routine everyday, they somehow seem to know the date, and are responding to it.

will continue my observation.

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Well Research continues his "Observations" and the chickens always get it right , "SN" on odd days and "NS" on even

"Leap Year" Doesn't even mess them up.

Well Research decides that some external influence is at work.

So he builds a turntable for the chicken coop and places it inside a barn with no windows.

At night while the chickens sleep , he slowly turns the coop 180 degrees to see if he can trick them into exiting the south door on an even numbered day.

it doesn't work

So the next night he turns the coop 90 degrees , so there are only east and west doors ....no chickens exit the coop.

Well research is stumped , so he calls the mayor , lets call him "Quantum", to see if he can explain it.

So Quantum arrives , listens to what Research has to say , reads his notebooks and after pondering on it for about an hour

"Well what is happening,our chickens only exist when they are outside of the coop ...there is only the 'potential' for a chicken to exist inside the coop.

Now , if the potential for a chicken to exist nears the north door on an even day , that potential becomes a chicken that we can detect , if it nears the southern door it becomes an "Super Symmetry Chicken" a type of chicken we can't detect.

At night , both the "detectable" chickens and the "Super Symmetry"Chickens return to the coop via the opposite door they left in order to conserve energy and mass.

Now this means that somewhere , in an alternate universe , constructed of extra dimensions (an infinite number of dimensions to be precise ) there is a "Super Symmetry" farmer who is feeding and taking care of the other chickens that you can't see

this "Super Symmetry Farmer" is just like you except for one thing

He locks the north door on his coop on even days , and the south on odd days to force his chickens to exit in a SN(even) and NS(odd) pattern which of course forces your chickes to do the exact opposite"

Research looks at the Mayor .....for a long time.

Then he says

"Quantum, that is the biggest load of horseshit I've ever heard."

And the mayor responds.

" Aren't you renting this farm from me?"

And Research , slumps in his chair....."I shouldn't have put it that way then".

Quantum grins and smugly states "glad to hear you agree with my theory".

It could have been worse. What if the LHC had created a Black Hole that was always on the verge of going out of control, and the only thing keeping it from going out of control was pumping more research money into the project? You don't want to wake up the evil ogre that lives down at the bottom of Black Holes because then you will have to feed it from time to time to pacify it.